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HUMANS ON THE MARCH
Victory is at hand:
The glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula are in rapid retreat.
Happy Earth Day, you big white wimps!
UPDATE. We are also defeating the deadly cassowary.
Damn that Crispytoast, I was too slow.
Posted by ZombieXXXXking on 2005 04 22 at 01:05 AM • permalinkSo what? Kiwis were surfing there 26 years ago.
I notice that according to the BBC report the authors of the study in Science magazine covered their asses with the usual, ‘ifs’, ‘buts’ and ‘maybes’ such as:
“Although higher air temperatures are a factor, they say, the full picture may go beyond just simple global warming.”
This wasn’t the way it was reported on the ABC’s ‘Midday Today’ program at lunchtime today. The ABC’s version involved some creative editing which pinned the blame fairly on global warning, caused, of course, by youse evil humans - white caucasian humans that is.
An interesting letter appears in the 16 April edition of New Scientist by David Bellamy of the The Conservation Foundation where he states ... “it should be pointed out that glaciers in many other parts of the world are not shrinking but in fact are growing ... 555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland, have been growing since 1980.” ... Here is the start of the letter, the full letter is available for subscribers.
The Antarctic Peninsula is a small part of the entire Antarctic continent.
Elsewhere on the continent glaciars are growing.
I challenge anyone to find a report in the media the specifies either of these points.
Wikipedia has a nice satelite image showing how small the peninsula is compared to the rest of the continent:
All that ice. So few martinis, so little time. Sigh.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 22 at 06:11 AM • permalinkThey were like, “We’re totally gonna flatten you!” And we were like, “No way, bitches.”
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 04 22 at 09:35 AM • permalink“it should be pointed out that glaciers in many other parts of the world are not shrinking but in fact are growing ...
The Antarctic Peninsula is a small part of the entire Antarctic continent. Elsewhere on the continent glaciars are growing.
Ok, yes, that might technically be true. But the ones that are melting are directly due to the US belching out tons of CO2. Part of this is directly due to the new riding lawn mower I bought this spring. I’m sorry but I didn’t sign any Kyoto Protocol. Just try to pry my John Deere from my hands, um, well actually from my butt. Yes, just stay away from my butt, thank you.
With regards to the glaciers that are increasing, well, that’s probably due to European gasses. There’s probably an invisible wall or something hanging over Earth where US gasses melt and European gasses freeze. It’s all scientific you know. Probably Einstein and the space/time continuum enter into it somewhere. Probably warp speed and a cloaking device too.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 22 at 09:54 AM • permalinkGlaciers are advancing?! I’ll be outside pulling the catalytic coverter off my Detroit LandBarge 88…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 22 at 10:09 AM • permalinkI hope someone puts this into a time capsule…
The power of the INTERNET, nwab. Google will cache it, and then future generations can come back to see who was wrong and who was right….if anyone is still using computers.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 22 at 10:14 AM • permalinkHere’s the ABC‘s very iffy report – edited – on the study:
The British Antarctic Survey Group has published research in the Journal of Science, which shows that in the past half-century almost 90 per cent of the glaciers in the Antarctic have retreated.
Researchers looked at 244 glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Their research shows that since the 1950s, 87 per cent of the glaciers have shrunk.
Researcher David Vaughan says there has been a noticeable difference in that part of Antarctica.
Ain’t exactly right, now is it?
Stevo — Well, first move to the equator…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 22 at 11:15 AM • permalinkOne thing I never understood was why, given I live 4,000 feet above sea-level, I’m meant to give a toss about rising sea-levels. If it cuts half an hour off the drive to the coast, then fuck Bangladesh.
Posted by David Gillies on 2005 04 22 at 01:15 PM • permalinkIf it cuts half an hour off the drive to the coast ...Bangladesh.
Oh my gosh. This will definitely make Tim D’s blog or Daily Kos or such. They will scream in horror while wagging nicely manicured fingers. Oh they will make you pay Mr. Gillies.
Damn funny though. Oh no, they’ll make me pay too.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 22 at 01:24 PM • permalinkTim, what do you think of this Corby? Do you think she was framed?
Posted by Kofi Annan on 2005 04 22 at 01:41 PM • permalinkDamn you Achillea! I’m singing it too now…
although I like that song.
There are, after all, far worse things that could be planted in our minds.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2005 04 22 at 02:55 PM • permalinkI live in southern Indiana, the high this today was 70 and now they are saying light snow possible this weekend.
So much for global warming. At least around here. I protest. My tulips are in bloom and I get really pissy when anything interferes with my flowers.
Besides I was watching the Science channel and we won’t live long enough for global warming to get us or planet Earth.
Either that big ass asteroid out there or a super volcano will obliterate every living thing in the whole wide world long before green house gasses can render the earth a dim memory.
so cheer up.
No wronwright, both the growing glaciers, waiting to overrun our cities in a new ice age, and the shrinking glaciers, flooding helpless third world countries, are caused by American greenhouse gases. Only the glaciers which are staying EXACTLY the same are being influenced by those harmless European, Indian and Chinese gases.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 04 22 at 11:03 PM • permalinkBut, you see, we’re all going to be flash-frozen any day now. I saw it in a movie, and we all know movie science is never wrong.
Jennifer Marohsy from the IPA now has her own blog, Bookmark!!
Nah, I think I’ll pass. I took a look: she’s boring and didactic.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 04 23 at 09:58 AM • permalinkJim, did you use the term “space/time continuum” in your post? No. I did.
Nor did you use “warp speed” or “cloaking”. I did though. These are very impressive scientific terms displaying my vast understanding of science stuff and things.
Obviously my one high school physics class (which I mistakenly signed up for thinking I was registering for phys ed and dodge ball) makes me a little bit more qualified to know which gasses melt and freeze which glaciers. Wouldn’t you say? Not to mention my frequent viewing of Star Trek Next Generation (not to confused with Deep Space Nine which is crap).
(I am so above these people scientifically)
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 23 at 01:22 PM • permalink
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Monty Burns springs to mind:
“Ooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well, I say, hard cheese.â€?